Amtrak Suspends Acela Trains

The brake problems on the high profile Acela line is the latest setback for the troubled company. [Michael Smith/Getty Images]

Well, I'm beginning to believe in Murphy's Law! I just booked tickets on the Amtrak Acela Express from New York's Penn Station to Washington, DC's Union Station for this Thursday. And then, splashed across the front page of the NYTimes Online, Matthew L. Wald and Christine Hauser's article: Amtrak Suspends Acela Trains After Finding Brake Problems. Uh-oh.